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A Turners Station woman was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison last month on charges that she defrauded her company out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Sandra Chilton, 46, of Turners Station, previously entered a guilty plea to wire fraud. She was the manager of a lending business in Shelbyville.
Chilton admitted to U.S. District Judge Danny C. Reeves that she took approximately $648,525 from her employer, Pioneer Credit Company. Judge

Reeves ordered Chilton to repay Pioneer Credit all of the money she stole.

Campbellsburg Baptist Church will hold a six-week computer training seminar. The course is open to the public, and will provide participants with the information that may be needed to pass Microsoft Training Certification tests that may be helpful when job hunting.

The sessions will be led by George Banks, owner and operator of Computer Hawks of New Castle, Eminence and Louisville. Banks is a Microsoft Certified Instructor.

The training sessions begin at 7 p.m., Monday, April 11, at the church and will run for six weeks.

Fight the effects of gravity and weak postural muscles with Bones for Life®! Build core muscles and bone density, stand taller, and move with more grace. The Bones for Life® program is being offered in Shelby County through a collaboration of the UK Extension Office and Shelby Fit for Life.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently updated the nursing home five-star rating system for Nursing Homes.
Only the country’s top 16 percent of nursing homes achieved a 5-star rating, the highest rating a facility can earn. The rating is established to provide consumers with guidance as to the level of service the facility provides.

Residents and businesses along Kentucky 55 in the counties of Carroll, Trimble, Henry, Shelby, Spencer, Nelson, Washington, Marion, Taylor, Adair and Russell are welcome to participate and join in a four day yard sale being held April 14-17 along Hwy 55. Each participating person or business is responsible for promoting the event in their own county, however the Finchville Ruritan Community Center is sponsoring the event and can post a map to let others know where you are. For more information please call (502) 834-7754.

Chamber of Commerce
The Henry County Chamber of Commerce will hold a networking dinner on Tuesday, March 29.
The Patrick Henry Award dinner, honoring Martha Tarry Simpson, will be held Tuesday, May 17.

Weekly story time at the Henry County Public Library has always signaled a time for local children to gather under the branches of the story tree.
Unfortunately, the children’s section has been closed for repairs since Valentine’s Day, when a patron ran into an exterior wall with her vehicle.
The story tree limbs have been bare since the accident, but that’s about to change.

Seven sleepy-eyed fifth graders straggled in to Amy Knight’s humanities room at Eastern Elementary School on Tuesday morning.
They took violins and cellos out of black gig bags, and adjusted sheet music on stands, chairs placed in a semi-circle around their musical director.

The orchestra members tucked instruments under their chins or balanced cellos between their knees. Knight readied the group to play “Irish Melody.”

Working eight fire investigations in less than two years in Campbellsburg, Henry County Sheriff’s Department Detective Danny Stivers knows he’s dealing with an arsonist.

“In my career, I’ve never had anything like (this),” he said. “Never had this many fires in an isolated area over a timeframe like this. I feel, we all feel, that it’s the same person setting these fires.